Tue October 05 2004
Cybook E-Book Tablet finally ready for the market |
11:13 AM by Alexander Turcic in More E-Book Readers | Legacy E-Book Devices Several months ago I reported about a preview of the Cybook e-book reader hardware that was available for order. Now you can order the final version (USA, Germany). Let me tell you first what I like about the Cybook: support of multiple e-book formats. No matter whether you are dealing with DRM-protected Mobipocket, MicroBook, Boo Reader, HTML, TXT, Winword RTF, PTab XLS - the Cybook supports it. If only Sony had listened to the market and done the same for the Librie, I bet, it would have been as popular as Apple's iPod is today. What do I not like about the Cybook? The price. 734.90 Euro or USD $744 is just "a bit" too much for what I would be willing to spend on a dedicated e-book reader. |
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palmOne manager explains why T5 is cool |
08:26 AM by Colin Dunstan in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones AME Info Broadcast has an exclusive 4:30mins interview with Palm's regional manager, Stuart Maughan. He is quite taken by the new Tungsten T5 You can access it here. |
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UNESCO: The e-Book revolution is yet to happen |
05:16 AM by Colin Dunstan in E-Book General | News Unesco recently offered a workshop in Bangalore, India depicting the potential of e-Books. Participants from Asia and Europe identified the issues and complexities involved in e-book projects delineating the role of e-Books in education, research and libraries from the perspective of the publishers, distributors and users. While I believe that the acceptance for e-books has at least somewhat improved, Shalini Urs, who leads a UNESCO e-Book Project Strategy Group, has a more gloomy interpretation of the current market: "The e-Book industry and market place is a nebulous one with each of the players continuing to test waters and gingerly transiting into the arena. While most of the stakeholders believe in the potential of the e-Books, none is ready to take the plunge – not yet! The e-Book revolution though foretold in the year 2000 is yet to happen." You can read the full press release here. |
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Newton - Long Live the King! |
04:53 AM by Colin Dunstan in E-Book Readers | Alternative Devices The Apple Newton refuses to die. The Worldwide Newton Conference 2004 has wrapped up photos and, thanks to Paul Guyot, there is real hope for an emulator. His talk, titled "Newton never dies, It only gets new hardware," describes and shows the Einstein Emulator, that will eventually allow the Newton OS to be built and run on top of Unix. Forget Palm for a moment. Forget PocketPC. Will your next Linux PDA boot Newton OS next year? Source: Slashdot |
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Mon October 04 2004
1src New Look |
06:11 PM by Alexander Turcic in Miscellaneous | Lounge 1src has a new look, and I must say I like it! Good job, guys! |
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iSilo/X V4.15 Final is released |
05:32 PM by Alexander Turcic in Archive | iSilo/X iSilo/X V4.15 is out of beta and now available for download (iSilo iSiloX). iSilo V4.15 adds several new features such as a redefined category view (e.g. [font=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica][size=-1]a top-level entry is added for listing all categorized documents[/size][/font]) and [font=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica][size=-1]search of standard locations for links to external documents. A list of all changes is available here.[/size][/font] Beside the usual bugfixes, iSiloX V4.15 adds support for dynamic title components ([font=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica][size=-1]\Xdate; for the conversion start date with the optional parameters Y, Y2, M, M2, D, and D2; [/size][/font][font=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica][size=-1]\Xtime; for the conversion start time with the optional parameters, H, H2, M, M2, S, and S2; [/size][/font][font=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica][size=-1]\Xtitle; for the first source file title). |
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Master Kick for PalmOS |
05:20 PM by Alexander Turcic in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones Here is a new PalmOS-based game from iNDUSTRY Entertainment, the company behind the hit game Monsta: Master Kick. Master Kick is a new arcade sports game based on the real life game of foosball, or table soccer. It gives players the opportunity to enjoy all the benefits of playing foosball as they know it and a lot more. The screenshots look magnicient. The game is expected to be released this month, and you can preorder it now for $14.95 (instead of the reg. price of $19.95). Thanks to iNDUSTRY Entertainment for the news! |
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Engadget reports hands-on with Treo 650 |
03:57 PM by ignatz in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones Engadget is reporting that a reader reports handling a Treo 650 in a Sprint store in Chattanooga. Here's what he had to say about it:
Head over to Engadget for more. |
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